According to Nuclear Blast, Robert Trujillo will join Kirk Hammett onstage for a special EXODUS encore on July 25th in San Diego. Details of the small and intimate club show are becoming clearer, as Kirk sat with longtime friend and writer Steffan Chirazi recently. “One of the things when we devised our FestEvil earlier this year, was the importance of having great live bands playing after the day’s events,” commented Hammett. “We’re happy to share that pretty unique element of what Fear FestEvil productions brings to our cool horror party and events. So it’s obviously not a whole new Fear FestEvil convention, it’s just a taste of the craziness you find at Fear FestEvil…and rest assured that we are working hard on the full Fear FestEvil II as you read this.”

Scion Audio Visual celebrates San Diego’s enormous comic & entertainment convention with iconic METALLICA guitar player Kirk Hammett and his namesake toy company Kirk Von Hammet Toys with an exclusive, RSVP-only celebration dubbed the “Fear FestEvil After Party” that will showcase a performance by legendary Bay Area thrashers EXODUS on July 25th at F6IX located at 526 F Street in San Diego, California. (NOTE: RSVP for this event is now closed!)

This special EXODUS performance will be highlighted by Hammett joining the band on-stage for a few songs.

Kirk Von Hammett Toys will also present the Famous Zombies Jr. limited edition toy at the year’s San Diego Comic Con. The very limited edition green Hammett figure will be available exclusively at San Diego Comic Con, and Kirk will be signing the toy itself at the Nuclear Blast Records/Stern Pinball/JSR merch SDCC booth 503 on Friday July 25th from 1pm to 2pm, and on Saturday July 26th from 2pm to 3pm.

Fans will be able to purchase tickets for the signing starting on Wednesday July 23rd for the Friday appearance. Once Friday’s tickets are sold-out, Saturday tickets will be released. Tickets are available at the Nuclear Blast Records/Stern Pinball/JSR merch booth (503).

“I’m stoked to be bringing more exclusive wares to the San Diego Comic Con,” says Kirk Von Hammett himself, “Nuclear Blast have been friends for quite some time, so I’m happy to be able to bring one of my exclusives to their booth. Being a fan of comics and movies since I was a kid, it’s just a huge honor to be at Comic Con on both sides, selling and buying!”

Be warned, only a strict 300 of these Nuclear Blast Green collectible classics will be available, so act fast to make sure you’re in line for yours!

Source: Bravewords.comMETALLICA drummer Lars Ulrich and bassist Robert Trujillo recently spoke with Movie Maniacs about the band’s Metallica Through The Never. Topics of discussion include the possibility of taking the movie’s stage on the road for a real tour, favourite Metallica songs, and career alternatives:

Metallica Through The Never in IMAX 3D had the highest opening for a specialty film this past weekend. According to Deadline.com “the action/concert feature grossed over $1.67 million, easily the weekend’s highest grossing specialty newcomer, averaging $5,482. The weekend’s gross is already more than the cume of the previous film centered on the popular heavy metal band. Docu Metallica: Some Kind Of Monster cumed over $1.22 million domestically in 2004. It opened in three theaters in July of that year, averaging $15,453.”

Metallica have uploaded more behind-the-scenes footage from their film, Metallica Through The Never, which hit IMAX 3D theatres on September 27th and theatres everywhere on October 4th.

Metallica Through The Never stars Metallica, one of the most popular, influential rock bands in history. In this music-driven, 3D motion picture event, award-winning filmmaker Nimród Antal immerses audiences in a bracing, raw and visceral cinematic experience with spectacular live performance footage of Metallica’s most iconic songs – created exclusively for film – combined with a bold, narrative story featuring imagery drawn from the band’s trailblazing iconography. Dane DeHaan portrays Trip, a young roadie sent on an urgent mission, during the Metallica’s roaring live set in front of a sold-out arena. The film features dazzling pyrotechnics, the most elaborate live-performance stage ever built and state-of-the-art 3-D photography, captured using up to 24 cameras simultaneously.

BraveWords’ review of Metallica Through The Never can be found at this location.

In an exclusive Fender Vision interview, bassist Robert Trujillo discusses the Fender gear that has served him well throughout this career with SUICIDAL TENDENCIES, INFECTIOUS GROOVES and METALLICA. He also touches on helping to recover the Bass Of Doom, made famous by the late Grammy-winning jazz bass virtuoso Jaco Pastorius. Check out the chat below.

Asked by Music Review what his most treasured music-related item or memorabilia was, Trujillo said: “That’s an easy one. My hero is a bass player by the name of Jaco Pastorius. Jaco‘s bass was missing for 20 years, and it’s a long story as to what had actually happened to it, supposedly stolen or sold for drugs; it was a mystery. The bass returned to the world around four years ago, and it was held up by a collector who managed to get hold of it. The family enquired about it and wanted to get the instrument back, because they felt it was theirs and it was nearly impossible because of legal issues and it turned into a war. I have been friends with the family for 17 years and I managed to help them to at least get the bass back into the immediate family. So we got the bass back; I’m the legal owner of the instrument, but we are really all in it together. I’m not a collector of instruments; and I don’t like any of my bass guitars more than the other, but that instrument is loved not only by me but everyone else in the world. I’m glad I was able to get it back to our immediate circle. We’re making a film, not about the bass, but about his life and that will come out in September. In fact, the film company producing it with me was the very same one that did ‘Searching For Sugarman’, Passion Pictures.”

Trujillo‘s movie about Jaco Pastorius, “Jaco”, was directed by Stephen Kijak, who helmed 2010’s “Stones In Exile”, the 2010 film about the recording of the 1972 THE ROLLING STONES album “Exile On Main St.”

“Jaco was my hero growing up,” Trujillo told USA Today. “Hearing him was like hearing Eddie Van Halen doing ‘Eruption’ for the first time: You thought, ‘What instrument is that?’ I loved jazz fusion and branched out from there. But Jaco had an edge that far exceeded his jazz persona. He was funk, he was rock, he was soul. And his whole attitude was punk.”

Trujillo added, “The film for me is from the heart.”

Pastorius, who was bipolar and had wrestled with substance abuse, died in 1987 at age 35 following a violent altercation at a Fort Lauderdale bar.

During a brand new interview with Brian McCollum of the Detroit Free Press, METALLICA bassist Robert Trujillo was asked about whether the band’s fans have come to always trust the group to always deliver the goods, both in the studio and on the concert stage. “Yes and no,” Trujillo replied. “Obviously there were mixed reviews on our Lou Reed experience (‘Lulu’, 2011). Some people thought it was an amazing artistic statement. A lot of METALLICA fans thought it was crap. [laughs]

“You take chances and kind of go with the flow of it. We just try to have a good time. That’s the name of the game — be creative — and sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t work.

“That’s what makes the band special — the fact that METALLICA can go in and play with an orchestra and collaborate with the likes of a Lou Reed, and actually do a bit of improvising in uncharted territory.

“In this day and age, it’s important in staying relevant, especially for us. We’re inspired by so much, we like to try things. Sometimes financially it can be a task. …

“We’re there to deliver the passion we feel for music. When we put on the guitars it’s like we’re kids again. And that’s different from a lot of bands when they get older, to still connect with music that way. We come up with so many riffs — our problem is trying to keep them all out of one song. [laughs] It’s a good problemto have.

“Right now we’re having a hard time focusing on making a new record because there’s so much else going on.”

Trujillo also spoke about the upcoming second annual Orion Music + More festival, a music and lifestyle festival created by METALLICA and their friends at C3 Presents.

“The one thing about the Orion festival that’s actually pretty cool is that it’s also a lifestyles event,” the bassist said. “We’re connecting on different musical levels with various types of bands, but also with everyday passions. Last year we were at the beach, so we had surf, jet skis. We’ve got a skate zone — legends as well as newer pros — which is great for me. I grew up skating and surfing. I’m still wearing Vans tennis shoes to this day.

“James [Hetfield, guitar/vocals] will have cars from film, television. That’s his passion. He’s legitimate. That’s what he does — builds custom cars. Kirk [Hammett, guitar] will have his house of horrors.

“As far as Lars‘s situation … he really loves the art of filmmaking. He’s on another level. I work on films myself. He’s my number one guy, my critic — ‘Hey, check this rough cut out.’ He’s very honest and sincere. He’s incredibly intelligent. …

“Hopefully we can keep it going. Orion is a new thing, you know. It takes time. Putting your own festival together is not an easy task. It’s modeled after the European festivals, with a variety of music, where you might have LOS LOBOS playing before METALLICA, and then a pop act after.”

METALLICA frontman James Hetfield and bassist Robert Trujillo are featured as playable characters in the upcoming “Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater HD” action sports video game “Revert Pack” DLC. The pack will be made available on December 4 at $4.99 on Xbox Live, PlayStation Network and Steam.

Although it was previously announced that the revert will only be usable within levels from “Tony Hawk 3” — not on the existing “Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater” or “Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2” levels included in “Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater HD” — that is no longer the case: a free title update for the game will allow players to use the revert throughout the game; the patch should go live the week the add-on comes out, according to Polygon.

“Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater HD” launched in July, selling 120,000 units in its initial Xbox Live timed-exclusive debut. The game was later released on PlayStation 3 and PC.